# To deploy or not to deploy on App Engine

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/to-deploy-or-not-to-deploy-on-app-engine/169773>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 8, 2009, 2:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/to-deploy-or-not-to-deploy-on-app-engine/169773 "2009-06-08T14:45:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![tashfeen.ekram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@tashfeen.ekram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tashfeen.ekram)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 2:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/to-deploy-or-not-to-deploy-on-app-engine/169773/1 "2009-06-08T14:45:59Z")

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I am nearing the end on a project i have been working on and am trying  
to figure out where to host it. I am very tempted to host it on  
google’s app engine. you get a ton of space, band width, and processor  
all for free!

I was hoping to get some advice as to what people think about deplying  
on the app engine.  
Would it better to wait until ruby is supported? Are there perfomrance  
issues with using JRuby? What would happen if ruby were supported in  
the future, would transfering be a pain?

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**Author:** ![tashfeen.ekram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@tashfeen.ekram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tashfeen.ekram)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 6:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/to-deploy-or-not-to-deploy-on-app-engine/169773/2 "2009-06-08T18:15:57Z")

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Do you use active record on your project? If so, google app engine is  
not for you.

Take a look at this post, it explains some of the limitations:  
[http://olabini.com/blog/2009/04/jruby-on-rails-on-google-app-engine/](http://olabini.com/blog/2009/04/jruby-on-rails-on-google-app-engine/)

regards,  
Leonardo Borges

> **[Leonardo Borges](http://leonardoborges.com/)**
>
> Code. Leadership. AI.

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**Author:** ![tashfeen.ekram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@tashfeen.ekram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tashfeen.ekram)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 6:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/to-deploy-or-not-to-deploy-on-app-engine/169773/3 "2009-06-08T18:25:17Z")

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Leonardo Borges wrote:

> Do you use active record on your project? If so, google app engine is  
> not for you.

That may be true, but Ola’s post explains how to connect Rails to the  
Google DataStore instead. So you may not need ActiveRecord. (No, I’ve  
never actually done this.)

## Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser  
[http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org)  
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